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Screw Political BS, Quit Pointing Fingers And Get Us Back To Work

August 20, 2006 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

The jobless rate recently rose in all but eleven states, the Democrats stated it’s because of the Republican President and the Republican congress and Senate, the Republicans countered by stating it’s the negative effects of Democratic campaigning. Regardless of what you believe, the economy is the number one concern for voters going into this years election and both political parties are pandering to the job creation demographic.

However, before you are swayed by the partisan rhetoric consider that it may be neither the Dem’s pr the Rep;s fault for our current state of joblessness, it may be our own corporate America. Take Ford’s for instance, they keep firing and laying off workers thus reducing their customer base, then they wonder why sales are down.

How can they sell $30,000 SUV’s to unemployed factory workers or former executives now making less than the cars value per year? How many times can you eliminate American jobs, ship them overseas, then try and maintain your current level of sales? If we keep outsourcing all of our jobs who will be able to afford to buy anything to keep our economy moving at all? This is here politicians can step in.

A representative of the Bush Administration recently said that individual Americans are not seeing economic improvement in their own daily lives but overall there is a large economic improvement being seen in America. What the #$!!?. What does that statement mean? We can’t see improvement in our own lives but there is improvement, what is this bozo trying to double-speak say? Come on, we are smarter than that.

Republicans, and Democrats, can enact policy that makes bringing product or money back into the country from off-shored work less appealing than if the products and work were done here in America. We can only outsource soo much and then we will become dependent on more than just foreign oil, we will also be dependent on other foreign needs, this strikes at the very heart of homeland security, which is also a popular issue with voters.

Case in point, a Detroit newspaper recently ran two headlines on the same page, one stated, ‘jobless rates rise in Michigan.’ The other headline stated, ‘Need of nurses so large that now nurses being brought from overseas.’ Why aren’t we creating more qualified nurses here in America if there is such a demand? Can’t our own domestic political leaders figure this out of foreign ones can? I believe we need much more focus on America and its domestic needs than we are currently getting. It’s time to put America back to work and make us much more competitive.

We need trade policy enforced, more tax breaks for companies who keep work here in America, and more programs to help us produce and keep good paying technical and manufacturing jobs.

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